Beyond Oasis

The Story of Thor (ストーリー オブ トア~光 を 継ぐ 者~ Sutōrī obu Toa ~ Hikari o Tsugu Mono ~ or Story of Thor: Hikari o Tsugu Mono, released in North America as Beyond Oasis ) is an action-adventure with strong action game influence, which was completed in 1994 by the company Sega for the Sega Mega Drive. 2007, it was released as a Virtual Console title for the Wii.

The player controls in this game, the Prince Ali, who met by chance on a magical bracelet and is prompted by this to find the matching counterpart and its carrier and destroy. Control of the game and the fights with the enemies in real time, with a slightly offset frontal plan view has been selected as the viewing angle. The focus of the game lies in the confrontations with various enemies, which often occur in groups ( such as in Streets of Rage ). Only a small portion of puzzles to be solved.

The confrontations with the enemy groups are reacted Up -like style in a beat 'em. The prince used his weapons for different types of attacks that the player can activate in a certain order and rhythm through the operation of the directional pad and control buttons. Nearly two dozen different types of attacks are possible by this control. The main weapon of the actor is a dagger, but there are various power-ups in the form of weapon types, but keep to a few, hard to erspielende exceptions only for a certain number of attacks.

Additionally, you can rely on magic that is provided in the form of jinns. This must be, however, only found before its use. Each Djinn allows three different spells that can be used for solving puzzles also. One also accessible by a jinn minigame allows performing race on time.

Successor

Actually, as a predecessor to this game, but appeared only after that is The Story of Thor 2 (トア~精 霊 王 纪 伝~ Toa / Thor ~ Seirei - Ō Kiden ~, in North America as The Legend of Oasis published), which for the Sega 1996 Saturn was published.

The game content is basically identical, the told backstory differs only in name and subtleties of the plot. Was also significantly improves the graphics and the scope of the game, also the focus shifted to the puzzles that have a lot with the new ways to interact with the environment to do something more. Both the weapon selection and the number of collectible djinn was increased, the attack system somewhat simplified it.